FROM THE EDITOR
COVER: EIKO OJALA THIS PAGE: GETTY IMAGES X3, DANIEL BRIGHT
Your brain is a tough nut to crack. Psychologists have been trying to understand what’s inside our heads for over a century (which actually isn’t very long, as science goes), and there are still gaping cavities at the roots of our models. We have a pretty good understanding of how each of our senses work – how we see, touch, feel, hear and smell – but not so much how we generate consciousness – our sense of being. We have some sound models of what happens when we try to remember something, but no definitive picture of how those memories are created, or encoded, in the first place. This, in the face of our understanding of the rest of the Universe – of black holes, of distant worlds, of our own genetic code and so on – seems a bit disappointing.